Quotes About Communication

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

What do you mean, speak louder? If I could speak louder, I wouldn't need a telephone.

Of a bad playwright: "Saying nothing is the mother tongue of his art.

Bizarrely, I am convinced that a writer incapable of talking about himself is not a complete writer. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ,

the damaging notion that obscure is the way philosophy should sound.

more typical essay is the one on Karl Kraus, of which Kraus confessed that the only thing he understood was that it was about him.

To put it briefly, the secret is to put it briefly. But you always think that's what you're doing, until experience teaches you that you aren't being brief enough.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more directly, much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said?

Do I have a separate room? Don't I make love to you well?" She hesitated, smiling with exquisite suspicion. "Do you call that love, Fred?" "There are other words for it, but you wouldn't appreciate them.

Mothers sound so stupid when they praise their daughters to the skies.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

car écrire ne conduit qu'à écrire.

Il emportait un malaise qu'il connaissait trop bien, l'agacement, la gêne de ne jamais exprimer ce qu'il eût voulu exprimer, de ne jamais rencontrer la personne à qui il devait confier un aveu indéfini, un secret qui eût tout changé et dépouillé de son signe néfaste.

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

If nothing else, my analysis of George W.'s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.

Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he'd had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.

And love?" asked the Sangharaj. "The ultimate compromise," said Siri. "It's so important to have a partner that we cut and shape our tastes and likes and dislikes and go to great lengths to tolerate differences. We do this so we have someone beside us.

closed my eyes and diverted my mind from the awful sounds by thinking about language. I'd always thought of it as a friend. It's guided me through life and shown me new directions. Each new language I learned added to me. I became richer. But a language you don't know, sir, that is one mean, unfriendly son of a bitch. It's rude and secretive and it pushes you away, keeps you on the outside. And that's where I am now, on the outside.

He'd once read (or heard)—Disraeli, was it? (or Jimmy Bowden?)—that a man ought never to apologize; never to explain. He did neither